0278-6648/03/$17.00 © 2003 IEEE 33 he events of 11 September 2001 sent a ripple of fear across the United States. The US government sought to alleviate the increased concerns by enforcing strict security in airports, government buildings and athletic stadiums; however, with any security there is a price. For airline passengers that price was long lines caused by multiple security checks placed ...

Nicol, J. F., Dore, C., Weiner, J. S., Lee, D. E., Prestidge, S. P., and Andrews, M. J. (1973). British Journal ofIndustrial Medicine, 30, 325-334. Comfort studies of rail passengers. A short series of trials is described inwhich a specimen car of the new High Density Rolling Stock was laden with passengers at different densities and under different environmental constraints, designed to simula...

Purpose: With the development of the transportation, more traveling factors acting on the railway passengers change greatly with the passengers’ choice. With the help of the modern information computing technology, the factors were integrated to realize quantitative analyze according to the travel purpose and travel cost. Design/methodology/approach: The detailed comparative study was implement...

In 1971 344 700 people sustained non-fatal injuries in road traffic accidents, and of these probably 8% (27 576) were back seat passengers. This figure is unlikely to be less in the subsequent years. Of these 27 576 passengers no fewer than half will have received moderate or severe injuries. Most authorities now accept that there is a dramatic reduction in the severity of injuries, in particul...

The raison d’etre for the air transportation system is the movement of passengers and cargo. Consumer information for airline passengers and regulatory consumer protection of airline services provide measures of performance using the percentage of on-time flights, and the percentage of cancelled flights. Researchers have shown that these “flight-based” metrics are a poor proxy for measuring the...

Injury characteristics of child passengers in accidents are summarized in this paper. Based on the accident data about child passengers from 2011 to 2017 collected in the National Automobile Accident In-Depth Investigation System (NAIS), the analysis of the patterns of the traffic accident where child passengers are involved and injury characteristics of child passengers in the aspects of crash...

PROBLEM Adolescents who drive with peers are known to have a higher risk of crashes. While passengers may distract drivers, little is known about the circumstances of these distractions among teen drivers. METHOD This study used survey data on driving among 2,144 California high school seniors to examine distractions caused by passengers. RESULTS Overall, 38.4% of youths who drove reported ...

This study focuses on measuring the effect on Taiwanese airlines if they were to enlarge the seating room in airplanes per passengers’ preferences. A stated choice experiment is used to incorporate passengers’ trade-offs regarding preferred measurements; furthermore, a binary logit model is used to model the choice behavior of airline passengers. The findings show that the type of seat is a maj...

This paper aims to investigate the effect of acceleration on the discomfort of standing passengers. The acceleration levels from different public rail transport lines such as the mass rapid transits (MRTs) and light rail transits (LRTs) of Singapore, as well as the associated qualitative data indicating the discomfort of standing passengers are collected and analyzed. Based on a logistic regres...